1.1.2 - AWS Region

As with Microsoft, Amazon has similarly done a great job releasing a fully functional CLI tool, that will work on multiple platforms. AWS has also just recently announced their own version of CloudShell! The AWS cloudshell removes the requirement to install the CLI locally but if you prefer the full steps to install AWS CLI (v2) on any platform can be found here. With that said, on the latest versions of Ubuntu (and likely other distros), AWS CLI (v1) is available in the package manager.

AWS Cloud Shell

Search for Cloudshell in the AWS console or navigate directly to the CloudShell.

Local CLI Initial Login

This is for local CLI only. If you prefer to use CloudShell, you can skip this step.

To do the initial configuration of a local CLI installation, you can issue the command:

aws configure

This will then prompt you to enter the following information:

AWS Access Key ID [None]: ****************J2OR
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ****************ArK6
Default region name [None]: eu-west-2
Default output format [None]: table

The credentials you generated to log in to the Tuono Portal are suitable for registering the AWS CLI.

If you would like to interrogate the configuration, you can issue the following two commands:

cat ~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id = ****************J2OR
aws_secret_access_key = ****************ArK6

cat ~/.aws/config

[default]
region = eu-west-2
output = table

Identifying Regions

Let's just dive in and get started

aws ec2 describe-regions --region-names --all-regions

This will return:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                DescribeRegions                                |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
||                                   Regions                                   ||
|+-----------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+|
||             Endpoint              |      OptInStatus      |   RegionName    ||
|+-----------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+|
||  ec2.af-south-1.amazonaws.com     |  not-opted-in         |  af-south-1     ||
||  ec2.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com     |  opt-in-not-required  |  eu-north-1     ||
||  ec2.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com     |  opt-in-not-required  |  ap-south-1     ||
||  ec2.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  eu-west-3      ||
||  ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  eu-west-2      ||
||  ec2.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com     |  not-opted-in         |  eu-south-1     ||
||  ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  eu-west-1      ||
||  ec2.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com |  opt-in-not-required  |  ap-northeast-2 ||
||  ec2.me-south-1.amazonaws.com     |  not-opted-in         |  me-south-1     ||
||  ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com |  opt-in-not-required  |  ap-northeast-1 ||
||  ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  sa-east-1      ||
||  ec2.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com   |  opt-in-not-required  |  ca-central-1   ||
||  ec2.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com      |  not-opted-in         |  ap-east-1      ||
||  ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com |  opt-in-not-required  |  ap-southeast-1 ||
||  ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com |  opt-in-not-required  |  ap-southeast-2 ||
||  ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com   |  opt-in-not-required  |  eu-central-1   ||
||  ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  us-east-1      ||
||  ec2.us-east-2.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  us-east-2      ||
||  ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  us-west-1      ||
||  ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com      |  opt-in-not-required  |  us-west-2      ||
|+-----------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+|

Now you have your region name, you can add it to the Blueprint. To do that, see here.